re: #505 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Link to the released transcript

It sounds like they may have checked the bills, and accused him of being drunk or something. That’ll probably be used as an excuse, but my guess is that if the bills really were fake, he probably had no idea.

I don’t know how they do it in Minneapolis, but here in NYC (for as long as I can remember) retail clerks usually look at bills BEFORE they put them in the till/make change: yeah, it’s going to be a PITA if it turns out it’s counterfeit (the “owner” is stuck with it, or else it’s supposed to be turned in); but like I said above, who checks these things, in the age of ATMs….?

Though maybe Floyd WAS drunk - not relevant though: a funny-money call shouldn’t need four cops as a response: and there’s certainly no excuse for the fatal level of force applied here: or the “depraved indifference” of Officer Chauvin’s pals…